Top 380 Jennifer Lynn Barnes Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “Nash. Grayson. Jameson. Xander.” He said their names one at a time. “You were the clay, and I was the sculptor, and it has been the joy and honor of my life to make you better men than I will ever be. Men who may curse my name but will never forget it.”

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252. “I did a quick injury check on my organs and bones. The routine was familiar, one I paced my way through every other morning as I went from dispassionately watching my body heal to wondering if this time, I might have pushed things too far.”

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253. “Rage simmered in the pit of my stomach – rage that my deadbeat of a father would have dared to talk to the press, rage that someone had taped this article to the back of my locker door.”

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254. “The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”

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255. “Zeg maar tegen haar dat ik de dochter van mijn moeder ben.”

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256. “That’s my girl!” Xander bellowed. “Woman,” Max corrected. “That’s my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!”

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257. “What the elf, Avery? What the everlasting mothing-foxing elf is going on there?”

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258. “Passive-aggressive, sure, and petty.”

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259. “So,” Libby said sagely, “chess.” “Chess,” I repeated. “The move – it’s called the Queen’s Gambit. Whoever’s playing white puts that second pawn in a position to be sacrificed, which is why it’s considered a gambit.” “Why would you sacrifice a piece?” Libby asked. I thought about billionaire Tobias Hawthorne, about Toby, about Jameson, Grayson, Xander, and Nash. “To take control of the board,” I said.”

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260. “Michael cut in, “I’ll completely ignore it and go next. Best part of my week: I annoyed six out of seven of our instructors. Worst part of my week: the seventh is proving a deceptively hard nut to crack.”

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261. “Ready.” Libby looked down at the water balloons she held in each hand–and at her twin tattoos: SURVIVOR on one wrist, and on the other... TRUST.”

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262. “I told Vivvie what the person who’d answered had said, verbatim.”

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263. “But now all I could think about was that, yes, Harry used to scowl when I outmaneuvered him on the chess board, but his eyes had gleamed. He’d called me princess and horrible girl, and I’d called him old man.”

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264. “My mind is more like a roller coaster inside a labyrinth buried in an M. C. Escher painting that is riding on another roller coaster.”

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265. “Xander dusted his hands off on his pants. “Secret passage,” he said, then attempted to dust off his pant legs with his hands. “This place is full of them.”

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266. “My grandmother gave an elegant little shrug. “People will think what they want. I daresay they always do.”

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267. “H, the word is, two lowercase letters at the very end: v and e.”

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268. “Everyone is a little wrong sometimes, Heiress.”

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269. “Screw Ian. Jameson didn’t need Ian. It was – now and always – Jameson and Avery against the world.”

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270. “I’ve built three different companies from the ground up. You don’t achieve what I have achieved without an eye to potential eventualities. Potential risks. Frankly, young man, I expected Skye to tell you about me years ago.”

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271. “I had no weapons. No plan. Nothing but my blood and my hands. They were coming, and there were more of them than I’d realized.”

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272. “Hate me, if you can, for all the reasons I deserve it. But don’t hate me for leaving while you sleep. I knew you wouldn’t let me go, and I cannot bear to say good-bye.”

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273. “Jameson thought about what he’d written down, and it took everything in him not to look at Avery, because suddenly, her presence here didn’t seem like a boon. It was a risk. After all, Jameson could hear the Proprietor saying, these things are always more interesting when at least a few players have “skin in the game.” Anyone reading those words would be bad. Avery reading them would open Pandora’s box.”

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274. “Sometimes,” he said, “when I’m in a social pickle, I like to ask myself, WWJAD?” I raised an eyebrow, and he explained. “What Would Jane Austen Do?”

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275. “I mean, technically, he wasn’t fired,” Emilia clarified. “He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill’s forte, and I guess anything’s a pretty big step down after the White House.”

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276. “Grayson jerked to a halt, every muscle in his body taut. “Don’t you say her name.” His posture was angry, but his voice sounded like it was about to crumble. Like I’d gutted him. Not just Jameson. My mouth went dry. Emily didn’t just matter to Jameson.”

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277. “I told you she was special,” Jameson murmured as Grayson continued closing in on him. “And I told you to stay away from her.” Grayson stopped, just out of Jameson’s reach.”

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278. “The word wrath jumped out at me. I thought about the alcohol and drugs we’d found in Toby’s room. I thought about the fire on Hawthorne Island and the way the press had lauded Toby as such an outstanding young man.”

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279. “I wanted to shut myself in my room, collapse on my bed, and figure out what the Hello Kitty had happened that afternoon.”

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280. “Everyone had things they found inexplicably attractive. Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word ‘empirically’ and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.”

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281. “But on a more visceral level: I could have died.”

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282. “I used to play chess with him in the park,” I said. “Every morning.”

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283. “This wasn’t instinct,” the man – Adam – countered. “This was guilt, Ivy.” “I’m not debating this with you.” “Evidence would suggest you are.”

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284. “Some people are smart. Some people are good.” He opened his eyes and put a hand on each of my shoulders. “And some people are both.”

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285. “The Rooney girl never even should have been there!” Sheffield exploded. “She was a criminal. Her parents? Criminals. Cousins, grandparents, aunts, and uncles? Criminals.”

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286. “I can be careful,” I said, somewhat disgruntled. “Bryn, when you were six years old, you tried to bungee jump off a jungle gym by connecting the straps of your overalls to the bars with your shoelaces.”

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287. “Toby wasn’t an idiot.” Jameson’s expression was sharp. “Unless this was some kind of suicide pact, he would have had a contingency plan to make sure that he and his friends weren’t caught in the flames.”

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288. “Avery, did the ever-delightful Thea Calligaris happen to mention that her uncle is married to my aunt?” Zara’s last name was Hawthorne-Calligaris. “I hear Zara and your uncle are looking for ways to challenge the will.” Xander gave every appearance of talking to Thea, but I got the distinct feeling that he was really issuing a warning to me. Don’t trust Thea.”

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289. “The Rooneys may run Rockaway Watch, but it’s a small town. They’re small people with a small reach, and the legal situation had already been taken care of. Toby could have come home, but he fought it.”

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290. “Had the old man told his wife that their son was still alive? Had he known – or even suspected – the truth back when this will was written?”

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291. “I thought about the news coverage of the fire. The suggestion that there had been a wild party that had spun out of control. The way that the tragedy had been blamed, again and again, on Kaylie Rooney, when the three upstanding young men had been partying straight out of rehab.”

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292. “Like, even in fiction, friends to lovers? Never my thing. I’m more star-crossed tragedy, supernatural soul mates, enemies to lovers. Epic, you know?”

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293. “We all play by rules our brothers will never even have to know.”

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294. “And that was the nice thing about being the sole client of a multi-billion-dollar law firm.”

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295. “Putting pants on a dog was not what one would call “easy”. Putting pants on a purebred, hundred-pound Bernese mountain dog who was fairly certain she did not want to wear pants could have substituted for one of the twelve labors of Hercules.”

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296. “Grayson thinks you’re some master manipulator. My aunt is convinced you must have Hawthorne blood. But I think you’re the old man’s final riddle – one last puzzle to be solved.” He took another step, bringing the two of us that much closer. “He chose you for a reason, Avery. You’re special, and I think he wanted us – wanted me – to figure out why.”

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297. “Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it’s smash the patriarchy.”

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298. “Well then, Heiress.” Jameson stepped forward. Standing directly to my side, he brought his lips down to my ear and whispered, “Game on.”

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299. “Mr. Hawthorne signed a document reaffirming his will yearly,” Alisa told me. “He never changed it, until you.” Until me. My entire body tingled, just thinking about it. “How long ago was that?” I asked. “Last year.” What could have happened to make Tobias Hawthorne decide that instead of leaving his entire fortune to charity, he was going to leave it to me? Maybe he knew my mother. Maybe he knew she died. Maybe he was sorry.”

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300. “Libby’s on-again, off-again boyfriend – who had a fondness for punching walls and extolling his own virtues for not punching Libby.”

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